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PARAMETERS OF POWER by Vladimir Vasiliev in Toronto ( by John Oprea, 43 words )

Parameters of power training with Vladimir Vasiliev was like training football with Messi.
You know that you will never get to his skill but sure as hell that now you can take a goal with a smile and give a beating on your street.

Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!]Date Added: 2017-08-18 11:27:54

PARAMETERS OF POWER by Vladimir Vasiliev in Toronto ( by Jose Rodulfo, 285 words )

What an interesting seminar it was!
At the Parameters seminar, Vladimir brought me up and demonstrated how easy it was to make me unaware of my space. Someone mentioned that he tricked me three times, I answered no, he just taught us an awesome lesson on awareness, how to keep our surroundings in mind always.
Vladimir said to always see the full person. Anyone can hit, but escaping without contact is much more challenging.
Fighting without fighting is Supreme work.
Some of my training partners did not understand what Vladimir meant by ‘finding emptiness in yourself, outside of yourself, inside your opponent, and outside of him’. I’d like to share my understanding of these concepts. I had my partner punch me a few times, then with my breathwork, I removed my stomach from the line of fire. He was shocked that my stomach was no longer in range but I was still standing on the same spot (this was finding space within myself to escape). I also explained that maybe Systema is like karma, what you give is what you get.
Next, I was punched but at the same time I escaped and gave it back, the surprise on my opponent’s face was profound. When Vladimir said you had to find the person, I believe it is when you feel the tipping point of the person. Vladimir also spoke about softness and speed.
We are truly blessed to have this type of work taught to us and should embrace it in every form, seeing ten grown men pushing on Vladimir and then like magic with complete ease he moves all of them, without the appearance of fighting.
This subtle work is the road map to that success.

Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!]Date Added: 2017-09-10 15:33:42

PARAMETERS OF POWER by Vladimir Vasiliev in Toronto ( by Jose Rodulfo, 437 words )

Parameters of Power. What an interesting seminar it was!
I became more aware of this type of work after seeing Mikhail demonstrate it in Rome earlier this year. At the Parameters seminar, Vladimir brought me up and demonstrated how easy it was to make me unaware of my space. Someone mentioned that he tricked me three times, I answered no, he just taught us an awesome lesson on awareness, how to keep our surroundings in mind always.
Vladimir said to always see the full person. Anyone can hit, but escaping without contact is much more challenging.
Fighting without fighting is Supreme work. In Mikhail words, a professional is never aggressive or stands out.
Some of my training partners did not understand what Vladimir meant by ‘finding emptiness in yourself, outside of yourself, inside your opponent, and outside of him’. I’d like to share my understanding of these concepts. I had my partner punch me a few times, then with my breathwork, I removed my stomach from the line of fire. He was shocked that my stomach was no longer in range but I was still standing on the same spot (this was finding space within myself to escape). I also explained that maybe Systema is like karma, what you give is what you get.
Next, I was punched but at the same time I escaped and gave it back, the surprize on my opponent’s face was profound. When Vladimir said you had to find the person, I believe it is when you feel the tipping point of the person. Vladimir also spoke about softness and speed. An exact demo of this is in the training video Movement and Precision, there you would see smooth and continuous movement with surgical precision. These moves create calm and devastating results of a professional.
We are truly blessed to have this type of work taught to us and should embrace it in every form, seeing ten grown men pushing on Vladimir and then like magic with complete ease he moves all of them, without the appearance of fighting.
I was able to escape without contact and put my training partner down with one finger. When asked how did you do that, well I said this is the Parameters of Power. It appeared that if participants tried to see how best and hard they can strike, this consumed them and they were actually blind to anything else. Most of us sit there with our mouths open and watch Vladimir and Mikhail in amazement and wonder how did they do this or that. Well, this subtle work is the road map to that success.

Another really awesome seminar!
I always ask myself how he’s getting it together to teach over 200 people of completely different skill levels and everybody gets something out of it for his personal training (of course me included).
This is absolutely great stuff!!!

Great seminar in Belgium, 2 days dedicated to knife work was excellent because we had enough time to improve our skills using one single tool, the knife. Vladimir has teached some very good drills as usual ! Systema Belgium team had organized it perfectly ! thx

The Summit of Masters in Rome was an eye-opening experience for me and I treasured the interaction with all who participated including your good selves.
There were a lot of take aways for me and also valuable pointers from Vladimir that I have to work on.
Your kindness and warmth made a big difference to the event. Thank you for being there.

Most of the class was spent on dynamic-type work. I was so happy about the article that Vladimir posted after the seminar on training because there are times when you may hear on the news that someone calmly walked up to a group or a single person, and begin to stab or shoot and you ask yourself how can this happen.
I have come to the conclusion with my experience from Sunday's class, that for most people's psyche it is hard to identify a low level threat as being a threat until it is too late. Rolling back my mental tape I found that Vladimir had covered this lesson on the previous day with a few specific drills, which did not make their way into my subconscious until that experience.
Static training with the weapon from various distances and positions should be a vital part of ones training regime, which will allow ones psyche to quickly identify various types of low level threats, some of which can be deadly. I also noticed most of my training partners were quite good at identifying tension, but I was able to trick them quite easily due to the fact that they became greedy once I offered to them my control tension.
These seminars are very helpful due the fact that you meet and train with people of all types of skill levels, i.e. some are beginners and some are experienced. At times the beginners offer more challenges due to their awkwardness. Through it all, the best part of that day for me was seeing Vladimir’s amazing work.
Vladimir, you and your organization are a true blessing.